Medical care by my 7 year old Lola:

First- airway control.

Next- a focused history followed by a detailed plan.

Residents ⁦UAB Surgery⁩ take note!

Fantastic thread. Even more compelling for laparoscopy when you may not see that you have not properly placed the sponge for hemostasis. UAB Surgery

4 years of medical school
8 years of surgical residency
1 year of advanced MIS fellowship
7 years of busy academic practice
Over 2000 operations

And the pinnacle of my technical skill is *almost* perfecting the ballet bun

Never gets old. #IYKYK #itsnotjustahernia

Are you a surgeon? Do you have hands? ✋🖐️

If you answered yes to both, the Society of Surgical Ergonomics research team needs your help (2 min max) to better understand the interplay between hand size and instrument handling

Survey👇
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American College of Surgeons SAGES - Heading to Cleveland 2024

🔃 If u do apply #SmallBitesTechnique please RETWEET this post and spread the word!! Let's give a strong message!

#HerniaPrevention #StopTheBulge #AWSurgery #HerniaSurgery #HerniaFriends

Join us next month for an exciting webinar on advanced training in complex hernia! Vahagn C. Nikolian, MD Jenny Shao, MD, FACS (she/her)

Congrats to all the interns for surviving day 1! Maybe it went great. Maybe it didn’t. I was on call my first day of internship, now 15 years ago. I left ~30 hours later, on zero sleep, & when I got home broke down in tears.

Sorry UAB Surgery - it's true

The real perk of academic surgery - cool residents like Meixi Ma | 马梅西 clue you in on all the delicious, hip artisanal spots in town! #newfavoriteresident

Excited to share our recent publication in ⁦American Hernia Society⁩ Journal Hernia!

Towards identifying a learning curve for robotic abdominal wall reconstruction: a cumulative sum analysis link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Thoughts on this technique?

Robotic Inguinoscrotal Hernia Repair: Abandon and Invert the Sac youtu.be/bjZaWAZNUOQ via YouTube

So very proud of ⁦Steven Cochrun⁩ for publishing our work. It took him learning an entirely new methodology but he got it done! ⁦UAB Surgery⁩

Surgeon perspectives on the STITCH trial: a mixed methods study | SpringerLink link.springer.com/article/10.100…

What piece of surgical 'dogma' has never made sense to you?

Amber Shada Jill Streams, MD FACS Eric Knauer Ron Barbosa MD FACS Libby

Earlier today I posted a video of a challenging robotic operation I had recently completed. But that was easy compared to this ballet bun I crushed today! #dadgoals #ballerinasareintimidating

Matchy-matchy shoes and sweaters for clinic day today!! ⁦UAB Surgery⁩

And so begins phase 2 of post-conferencing--

Cataloging and downloading all the articles I want to read! #SAGES2023 #learningneverends ⁦SAGES - Heading to Cleveland 2024⁩